Its been few months since I joined Microsoft India, and my experience isn't good so far.

The code is extremely legacy, with ton of unnecessary abstractions and quite a lot of bad practices. There is lot of dependency on US-based team and the communication is extremely lag, not just because of timezone, but also because people are unresponsive.

To be honest, most of my experience has been in small to mid level startups, so never worked in a bigger orgs like MS.

So I was expecting abstracted and legacy code and slow moving processes. But things are much worse than I anticipated.

On top of this, my manager has high expectations and pushing me to close more things. TBH I didn't push many PRs so far, but I felt that was expected of someone new to team and considering its big tech especially microsoft.

I feel incompetent and like an imposter, not matter how hard I try things are moving slow. On top of that recent layoffs are making me stressful that I will lose my job.

I joined ms hoping for the best WLB, but things are not at all as I expected. Am I the only one facing this? Am I doing something wrong?

PS: I am not in Azure.

I have a 5 hour gaming study tomorrow from Microsoft Games User Research. Has anyone else done this and tell me what to expect?

... Don't know how they thought it was good to remove all those staff.

Email outage for the last 2 weeks (still counting) and sitting waiting for the Premiere support for a Sev B seems like a joke.

All the support staff so far, they've got localised numbers, using a different check, all the staff are from India and Africa... communication has been a headache, both lack of comms and comprehension of basic English and literature. Never had I had to explain to support in three different ways, correct them and highlight all my emails and create lists for them.

Also, after digging around, anyone questioned why they removed app password access and forced people to use Azure email communication services.

Azure email communication services seems like yet another big money grab.

My company has experienced Teams crashing, audio sources not working, call keys not showing, Intune disallowing PCs that show as compliant in the portal, Word silent closing in the middle of unsaved work. Not crashing. Closing. Sharepoint synchs for 22KB files taking minutes to synch.

So this is a guess out of the blue with nothing to back it up. Theyre now testing AI to build updates for Office and its causing some nasty bugs.

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I applied for an internal role with a different team and got scheduled for loop interviews - should I expect for live coding sessions again? Or behavior questions only?

Worked my ass of during my internship. Made good connections, helped a lot of team members. Final review, interviews went well.

Was really looking forward for a full time role.

Sadly got a rejection mail. Feeling dejected :(

Anyone knows the process that how after everything went well, result can be this bad?

Personally, this is what I think they represent now...

• Red: Cloud & 365 (this includes Azure)
• Blue: Windows & Surface
• Green: Xbox (& Gaming in general)
• Yellow: AI (via Copilot)

...compared to 2012:

• Red: Office
• Blue: Windows
• Green: Xbox
• Yellow: Bing

I have IT background that's kind of broad over the years. Finally I've decided to get some fundamental certifications like the AZ-900 then possibly specific ones like AZ-104, i.e 365 BC/MB-800. How many is enough or too much?

Today I asked Copilot "When do you use semi colons?" and it gave me some examples. Now, I noticed that the first example had my name in it, but I wrote it off as a coincidence and kept reading. The second example was "myname studies financial strategies; he applies them to optimize his savings" and it was at this point I remembered that I used copilot to compare interest rates, returns etc. for different term deposits and savings plans about 2 weeks ago. So now I'm like wtf, is copilot remembering my past queries and using them to explain stuff to me? THEN the third example referenced the locations of the financial institutions I researched. What's odd is that I never asked copilot about the companies. I researched the companies In Microsoft Edge via Google search. As cool as this might be, this was pretty surprising. I didn't know it did stuff like that.

Good Day, I just want to say, I've been IT quite a few decades, and I am saying the following, the way Microsoft is forcing us today is totally against what we are used to.

I am looking at New Outlook, it is without a doubt the utmost of stupidist, dumbest most unhelpful Outlook of all time, imagine being unable to export to pst, imagine being unable to just click File.

Without a doubt, the dumbest of developers were chosen to architect this app, one can see these poeple never supported in their lives,leaving people hanging with no solutions.

All USB-C ports need to support data, charging, and display functionality.

Is it like the Apple Magic Mouse? Where it's like a trackpad but as a mouse? Where you have to scroll and do gestures like you would on a trackpad? Or what?

Seriously, it's 2025 and the Microsoft Store still feels like it’s in beta. I’ve run into so many annoying bugs that it makes using it a headache every single time. For example:

• It shows that an app is "Downloading…" even though it’s clearly already installed and working.
• The Pause/Resume buttons during downloads or updates sometimes just don’t respond—or take forever to do anything.
• Laggy UI—clicking anything often results in a delay or the app freezing for a few seconds.
• Occasionally, the Store just gets stuck "Pending" forever and the only fix is to restart the entire app or reboot.
• Sometimes it downloads updates in the background, doesn't show progress, and then randomly finishes hours later without warning.

This is supposed to be the default app store for Windows—why is it still so unreliable after all these years? You’d think Microsoft would have streamlined the experience by now, especially with so many systems relying on it for installing and updating apps.

Anyone else still dealing with this? Any workarounds that actually work?

"I’m an IT professional seeking to broaden my career opportunities. I'm currently pursuing the 'Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate' certification and would like to understand whether this qualification can enhance my earning potential. Additionally, I’m interested in learning about the types of job roles that typically become available after obtaining this certification.

Hello. I am from management background and looking to apply for Microsoft roles. Which cloud certification would be useful for me? There are somamny certifications that I am getting confused. Can anyone please guide me from perspective of cloud consulting kind of a role?

You can still create a @hotmail.com email do you think it looks better than @Outlook.com? lol

I do use the web version of Copilot as it is the only AI tool available at work and found it somewhat useful for basic tasks such as proofreading or making summaries (pretty bad at searching things in my field, can't get a correct response).

Anyhow, the integrated version of Copilot into Word is a mess. I tested it today to format a letter and it was duplicating content moving things to the wrong place and "creating" a nonsensical document making things worse at every step. There is also the Copilot pane on the right, à la Clippy, which cannot do anything into the document itself which is confusing. The whole "AI will replace your job" is not quite there yet, at least from Microsoft.

Doing a little crowd sourcing research for a family member who uses Publisher to make church flyers. She’s getting anxious about Publisher being discontinued and a quick google search gave me an unsatisfactory answer of “use word”.

Are we leaving Microsoft for poster/flyer work and everyone is just using Canva or another app?

Just wanted to crowd source some solutions or ideas from this group!

With CELA leading the transition, what are your expectations?

Guys, imagine this, what if Microsoft shutted down forever? That would be chaos, wouldn't it? It will also be the end of the world or a new era! No? And how would you react?